Centennial College president and CEO, Ann Buller’s remarkable contribution to post-secondary education has been recognized with the Association of Canadian Community College’s (ACCC) Distinguished Service Award. Buller has been involved in the college sector for over twenty-five years and recently accepted a third, five-year term at the head of Toronto’s Centennial College, one of the … Read more
Sheridan College’s Bachelor of Applied Information Sciences (Information Systems Security) has won the Association of Canadian Community Colleges’ (ACCC) Gold Program Excellence Award. Since being launched in 2003, the program has achieved unparalleled success with a 100 [per cent] rate of graduate employment while remaining on the cutting edge of a rapidly changing industry. The full … Read more
The Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC) and the government of Peru have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to share Canadian expertise in technical post-secondary education. The agreement, with Peru’s Ministry of Education and Ministry of Labour and Promotion of Employment, builds on earlier progress towards implementation of ACCC’s Education for Employment (EFE) program. ACCC … Read more
The Association of Canadian Community Colleges issued a statement on the sudden passing of the Jim Flaherty. The full statement is available online.
The Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC) congratulated its partners and members who have won gold awards at the International Qualifications Network (IQN) ceremony, held recently in Ottawa. Presented by the Integration-Foreign Credentials Referral Office Branch of Citizenship and Immigration Canada, the IQN awards are presented to Canadian innovators of foreign credential recognition programs and … Read more
The Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC) and the UK’s National Recognition Information Centre (UK NARIC) have signed an agreement aimed at providing benchmark data to identify how British and Irish trade qualifications match up to Canadian requirements across nine skill areas. “ACCC is pleased to support initiatives to examine qualifications requirements that support the … Read more
The Association of Canadian Community Colleges issued a release saying that private sector partnerships with colleges and institutes have spiked as applied research solutions fuel economic benefits. The number of Canadian companies collaborating with public colleges and institutes to solve critical business challenges with applied research partnerships jumped by 19 per cent last year. Not only did college partnerships … Read more
Denise Amyot, president and CEO of the Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC) and chair of the World Federation of Colleges and Polytechnics released a statement regarding news that the federal government has reached an agreement with most provinces and territories related to the Canada Job Grant: “Canada’s colleges, institutes and polytechnics are pleased to see … Read more
The Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC) and India’s National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) have signed an ambitious Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at developing projects and programs to promote needed skills development in India. “Initiatives under this MoU will be based on the transfer of knowledge from Canada’s colleges, institutes and polytechnics, which are … Read more
The Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC) announced it has won the IPAC Deloitte 2013 Public Sector Leadership Award. ACCC president and CEO Denise Amyot accepted the gold honour in recognition of the association’s pioneering overseas orientation program for economic immigrants. “Winning this leadership award is a recognition of the important work and services we … Read more
